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March 7 - 29, 2014 The 2014 Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) presents an extraordinary roster of dance artists and creators from March 7 to 29, 2014. Performed in venues across the city, and featuring a diverse wealth of free and paid events, the festival includes such international icons as China’s Guangdong Modern Dance Company and Spain’s flamenco innovator Israe...
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DRIVING MISS DAISY By Alfred Uhry A Comedy of an Unlikely Friendship The beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning play follows the charming and moving adventures of a Southern matriarch and her chauffeur over their 25-year friendship, and reveals the power of the human heart to overcome prejudices and open itself to new possibilities.

The Burnaby Art Gallery has recently received the promised gift of a significant collection of First Nations and Inuit prints, all of which were created during the 1970s to early 1980s period, with many included in the Northwest Coast Indian Artist Guild series of 1977 and 1978. In addition, two notable Inuit works of Canadian Heritage were added to the collection in 2013. This exhibition feat...
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8th Annual Celebration of Nowruz at CBC Vancouver Join CBC Vancouver in celebrating Nowruz. You're invited inside CBC Studio One for a great concert featuring Vancouver's Qalandar. The evening will be hosted by CBC Radio One's Sheryl Mackay. Nowruz marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the year in the Persian calendar. It is celebrated on the ...
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Normal 0 false false false EN-CA X-NONE X-NONE CelticFest Vancouver celebrates 10 years of bringing the finest in Celtic culture to concert halls, clubs, pubs and the streets and gathering spots of Vancouver from March 8-16. Get ready for nine action-packed days of amazing music, dance, theatre, family entertainment, spectacle and special events. Western Canada's largest and best-loved Celtic ...
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Dreary and Izzy By: Tara Beagan When the Monoghan sisters lose their parents in a car accident, Deirdre is poised to enter university. Now she must care for her beloved older sister Isabelle, who's adopted, First Nations and affected by fetal alcohol syndrome. Deirdre struggles to manage until twin rays of hope appear in the form of a gorgeous vacuum cleaner salesman and a family friend. Thei...
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GUIZHOU CHINA, In the Season of New Rice by Evelyn Nodwell Exhibit date: March 1 - 30, 2014 Exhibit Opening: March 1, 2014 from 2 pm - 4 pm An exhibition by anthropologist and award-winning photographer Evelyn Nodwell as she explores village and small town life in Guizhou Province during China's growing urbanization. Guizhou is among the least developed of China's provinces. Many villag...
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February 26 to April 22, 2014 2D Alfonso L. Tejada: As an architect and urban planner, Alfonso is inspired by interesting vistas of townscapes from his travels both locally and abroad. His new series focuses on local landscapes, the fringe between the city and the beautiful natural environment of the North Shore. He has exhibited his work in numerous invitational solo and group exhibitions int...
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Beneath a veneer of Vancouver respectability and wholesomeness lies a world of murder, mystery and intrigue. In the mansions of Shaughnessy, on the streets of Chinatown, in the quiet neighbourhoods of suburbia, murders have been motivated by racial prejudice, infidelity and greed. Some have been solved and the criminals brought to justice, others remain unsolved more than 90 years later. Join loc...
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The Vancouver we know is more culturally attuned to and integrated with nature than any city of a comparable size on earth. Despite this, our city has dramatically transformed the natural environment. Opening February 27, 2014 at the Museum of Vancouver with presenting sponsor Pacific Salmon Foundation, Rewilding Vancouver explores the city's nature as it was, is, and could be. The first...
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On a dark and stormy Dublin night, four old friends gather for their annual ritual of cards and demon rum. But as the evening progresses, things take a sinister turn and they find themselves playing for more than just a few quid. Sparkling and suspenseful, this chilling pitch-black comedy takes us on a long night's journey into day. THE SEAFARER by Conor McPherson March 7-29 &n...
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To The Arctic Voyage to the top of the world, where a mama polar bear and her seven-month-old cubs navigate the Arctic wilderness they call home. Director Greg MacGillivray's captivating, adventurous and intimate footage gets you up close and personal with the polar bear family's struggle to survive in an environment of melting ice, gigantic glaciers, spectacular waterfalls, and majestic snowy ...
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Rescue Plunge into the challenging and inspiring world of saving lives in the face of a natural disaster. Follow behind the scenes, as a Canadian naval commander, two pilots and a volunteer rescue technician train for action. When an earthquake strikes Haiti, it creates one of the biggest disasters of the century. Witness the global humanitarian effort to bring aid to this country, from militar...
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Scorned: Emily Carr March 1 to May 26, 2014 Scorned: Emily Carr engages in dialogue with the concurrent exhibition A Terrible Beauty: Edward Burtynsky, presenting works that demonstrate Carr's interest in the denatured landscape-an occasional, but notable, subject of her work. The exhibition includes drawings and paintings from the Gallery's permanent collection, as well as a small selection o...
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"If I can't be a man, I do not wish to be a medical achievement." The producers of Skydive bring you this new production of the Tony award-winning play about a sculptor who, paralyzed from the neck down after a car accident, fights for the right to die. More relevant than ever, this perversely hilarious and powerfully compassionate play raises important issues of medical ethics ...
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Ever wonder what it takes to care for over 50,000 aquatic creatures at the Vancouver Aquarium? Until April 30, experience aquatic life like never before during Vancouver Aquarium Up Close, where visitors will take a journey beyond their first impressions of their favourite animals to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of these beguiling creatures. Vancouver Aquarium Up Close featur...
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Planet Earth: Shallow Seas 4-D Experience In this 15-minute epic 4-D adventure, hear the power of the ocean's waves as they crash along the shoreline, and feel the salty spray as you surf the coast with Atlantic bottlenose dolphins in search of food. Glide alongside a cast of balletic sea lions as they dive through vast swirling bait balls of anchovy, and track a mother humpback whale and her c...
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